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Rabbi Baruch Simon

Rabbi Baruch Simon is the Colonel Jehiel R. Elyachar Professor of Talmud at the Yeshiva Program/Mazer School of Talmudic Studies and a rosh yeshiva at the Rabbi Isaac Elchanan Theological Seminary of Yeshiva University.

Rabbi Simon is the author of divrei torah on the parsha titled Imrei Baruch, which has been published in numerous volumes. He recently published his first volume of Imrei Baruch on Halakha, which discusses the laws of eruvin and reshuyos.

Rabbi Simon received semikha (rabbinic ordination) from RIETS in 1988. A graduate of Yeshiva University High School for Boys, Rabbi Simon earned his BA, magna cum laude, in Judaic studies from Yeshiva College, where he delivered the birkat preidah (farewell address), a singular honor given the Yeshiva Program valedictorian.

Rabbi Simon was a fellow of the prestigious Caroline and Joseph Gruss Kollel Elyon and a fellow of the Marcus and Adina Katz Kollel. Before teaching in the Yeshiva Program, Rabbi Simon was a member of the halakha faculty at the Isaac Breuer College of Hebraic Studies.